The principle purpose of this study was to describe the use of nominal sentence of simple present tense in descriptive text by the tenth grade students of MA Muslimat NU Palangka Raya. How do the tenth grade students of MA Muslimat NU Palangka Raya using form nominal sentence of simple present tense in the written descriptive text products and what factors do contributing to their difficulties in using nominal sentence of simple present tense in writing descriptive text.
The method of this study was descriptive method and the approach of this study was qualitative. The subjects of the study were 13 students. In collecting the data, the writer used two techniques; interview and documentation. While analyzing the data, it used some techniques such as data collection, data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification.
The result of the study showed that the difficulties faced by the tenth grade students of MA Muslimat NU Palangka Raya were less vocabulary when write a descriptive text, confused when writing a descriptive text, difficulties in arranging the sentence, confused to determine the form of nominal sentence, difficulties to translate into English, and forgeting form of nominal sentence.